Book Club: Kindness for Weakness

Why we're buzzing about it: We are so excited for ABC Family's thriller series Twisted to start and this dark novel is perfect to hold us over until the premiere on June 11! Kindness for Weakness ls about a guy with a painful past you'll be rooting for from beginning to end.

What it's about: Fifteen-year-old James grew up in an unstable home with a drug-additcted borther, neglectful mother, and his mom's abusive boyfriend. James tried to look up to his older brother as a role model. Instead, James gets caught in the middle of his brother's drug deal and is sentence to a year in a juvenile detention center.

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In this coming-of-age tale, kind-hearted James struggles to resist the all-consuming vicious cycle of cruelty in the prison. James' English teacher sends him books during the sentence, which James uses as a mental escape. As the brutality of the prison guards and the pressure to join a gang with the other teens heightens, James fights for the answer to the lurking question: Will his kindess forever be mistaken as weakness?

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